Fly.iovsGoogle Cloud

Platform52

Platform62

Score Comparison

Overall

Pricing

Usability

Performance

Support

Reliability

Onboarding

Security

Integrations

Fly.ioGoogle Cloud

Signals Comparison

Reliability

Fly.io

Frequent reliability and uptime issues(9/10)
Postgres database outages and crashes(9/10)
Deployment failures and hangs(7/10)
Infrastructure changes break deployments(8/10)
Apps and databases deleted without warning(10/10)

Google Cloud

June 2025 global outage - 6 hours downtime(10/10)
Account suspension causes data loss risk(9/10)

Pricing

Fly.io

Pricing surprises and unexpected charges(8/10)
Aggressive billing with no alerts(8/10)
Free tier confusion and removal(6/10)

Google Cloud

Billing surprises even with credits(9/10)
Data egress and networking costs surprise users(8/10)
Free tier extremely limited compared to AWS(6/10)

Onboarding

Fly.io

Steep learning curve and complexity(6/10)

Google Cloud

No signals

Customization

Fly.io

Limited plug-and-play services(6/10)

Google Cloud

Cloud Functions single-file code limitation(5/10)

Support

Fly.io

Support tickets go weeks without response(6/10)

Google Cloud

Impossible to reach human support(9/10)
Support slow with wait times(7/10)

Usability

Fly.io

No signals

Google Cloud

Steep learning curve and overwhelming complexity(7/10)
Console interface slow and laggy(5/10)

Integrations

Fly.io

No signals

Google Cloud

DevOps tooling less mature than competitors(6/10)

Performance

Fly.io

No signals

Google Cloud

Cold start latency affects serverless performance(5/10)

Pricing Comparison

Fly.io

Hobby (Legacy Free)

Free

Users: 1 user

Storage: 3GB

Limits: Community support only, No billing alerts, Free allowances don't cap bills

No longer available for new orgs, Credit card required, Automatic charges for overages

Launch

Popular

$0/mo

Users: Unlimited

Storage: Usage-based

Limits: No priority support, No SLA, Complex pricing to predict

IPv4 $2/month per app, Volumes $0.15/GB/month (provisioned size), All compute charged even for internal apps

Scale

$29/mo

Users: Per org

Storage: Usage-based

Limits: Usage costs can still spiral unexpectedly

All compute costs additional, IPv4 and storage costs same as Launch

Enterprise

$0/mo

Users: Custom

Storage: Custom

Limits: Must negotiate pricing, Long contract terms typical

Requires sales engagement, Likely minimum commitment

Google Cloud

Free Trial ($300 credits)

Free

Users: N/A

Storage: As credits allow

Limits: 90-day expiration, some services not eligible, GPU/TPU restrictions may apply

Credits may be ignored while charges still apply per some reports, no warnings before credit exhaustion

Always Free Tier

Free

Users: N/A

Storage: 5GB Cloud Storage

Limits: Extremely limited compared to AWS Free Tier, e2-micro only, US-west1/central1/east1 only

Very limited - most services not included, egress beyond 1GB charged, only US regions free

Compute Engine (e2-micro)

Popular

$7.67/mo

Users: N/A

Storage: Separate

Limits: Shared vCPU, basic support only, limited for production

Egress $0.12/GB (first 10TB), storage extra, premium images cost more

Premium Support

$12500/mo

Users: Unlimited

Storage: N/A

Limits: Very expensive, Essential/Standard support with longer response times also available

Minimum $12,500/mo or 4% of spend (whichever higher), required for SLA guarantees

Feature Comparison

Feature	Fly.io	Google Cloud
Performance
Global edge deployment 35+ regions
Auto-scaling
Infrastructure
Compute Engine (VMs)
Firecracker micro-VMs
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Best-in-class
40+ Global Regions
Pricing
Per-second billing
Billing alerts Not supported
Storage
Cloud Storage
Networking
Private networking WireGuard
Custom domains
Analytics
BigQuery Industry-leading
Databases
Managed Postgres Reliability issues reported
AI
Vertex AI / Gemini Leading AI platform
TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) Unique to Google
Features
GPU support For ML workloads
Built-in queues/workers Manual setup required
Compute
Cloud Functions Cold start issues
Support
Free Technical Support Paid plans required
DevOps
DevOps/CI-CD Tools Less mature than competitors

Signals Comparison

Reliability

Fly.io

Frequent reliability and uptime issues(9/10)
Postgres database outages and crashes(9/10)
Deployment failures and hangs(7/10)
Infrastructure changes break deployments(8/10)
Apps and databases deleted without warning(10/10)

Google Cloud

June 2025 global outage - 6 hours downtime(10/10)
Account suspension causes data loss risk(9/10)

Pricing

Fly.io

Pricing surprises and unexpected charges(8/10)
Aggressive billing with no alerts(8/10)
Free tier confusion and removal(6/10)

Google Cloud

Billing surprises even with credits(9/10)
Data egress and networking costs surprise users(8/10)
Free tier extremely limited compared to AWS(6/10)

Onboarding

Fly.io

Steep learning curve and complexity(6/10)

Google Cloud

No signals

Customization

Fly.io

Limited plug-and-play services(6/10)

Google Cloud

Cloud Functions single-file code limitation(5/10)

Support

Fly.io

Support tickets go weeks without response(6/10)

Google Cloud

Impossible to reach human support(9/10)
Support slow with wait times(7/10)

Usability

Fly.io

No signals

Google Cloud

Steep learning curve and overwhelming complexity(7/10)
Console interface slow and laggy(5/10)

Integrations

Fly.io

No signals

Google Cloud

DevOps tooling less mature than competitors(6/10)

Performance

Fly.io

No signals

Google Cloud

Cold start latency affects serverless performance(5/10)

Pricing Comparison

Fly.io

Hobby (Legacy Free)

Free

Users: 1 user

Storage: 3GB

Limits: Community support only, No billing alerts, Free allowances don't cap bills

No longer available for new orgs, Credit card required, Automatic charges for overages

Launch

Popular

$0/mo

Users: Unlimited

Storage: Usage-based

Limits: No priority support, No SLA, Complex pricing to predict

IPv4 $2/month per app, Volumes $0.15/GB/month (provisioned size), All compute charged even for internal apps

Scale

$29/mo

Users: Per org

Storage: Usage-based

Limits: Usage costs can still spiral unexpectedly

All compute costs additional, IPv4 and storage costs same as Launch

Enterprise

$0/mo

Users: Custom

Storage: Custom

Limits: Must negotiate pricing, Long contract terms typical

Requires sales engagement, Likely minimum commitment

Google Cloud

Free Trial ($300 credits)

Free

Users: N/A

Storage: As credits allow

Limits: 90-day expiration, some services not eligible, GPU/TPU restrictions may apply

Credits may be ignored while charges still apply per some reports, no warnings before credit exhaustion

Always Free Tier

Free

Users: N/A

Storage: 5GB Cloud Storage

Limits: Extremely limited compared to AWS Free Tier, e2-micro only, US-west1/central1/east1 only

Very limited - most services not included, egress beyond 1GB charged, only US regions free

Compute Engine (e2-micro)

Popular

$7.67/mo

Users: N/A

Storage: Separate

Limits: Shared vCPU, basic support only, limited for production

Egress $0.12/GB (first 10TB), storage extra, premium images cost more

Premium Support

$12500/mo

Users: Unlimited

Storage: N/A

Limits: Very expensive, Essential/Standard support with longer response times also available

Minimum $12,500/mo or 4% of spend (whichever higher), required for SLA guarantees

Feature Comparison

Feature	Fly.io	Google Cloud
Performance
Global edge deployment 35+ regions
Auto-scaling
Infrastructure
Compute Engine (VMs)
Firecracker micro-VMs
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Best-in-class
40+ Global Regions
Pricing
Per-second billing
Billing alerts Not supported
Storage
Cloud Storage
Networking
Private networking WireGuard
Custom domains
Analytics
BigQuery Industry-leading
Databases
Managed Postgres Reliability issues reported
AI
Vertex AI / Gemini Leading AI platform
TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) Unique to Google
Features
GPU support For ML workloads
Built-in queues/workers Manual setup required
Compute
Cloud Functions Cold start issues
Support
Free Technical Support Paid plans required
DevOps
DevOps/CI-CD Tools Less mature than competitors